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SENIOR AIDES OF TURKISH CYPRIOT AND GREEK CYPRIOT LEADERS WILL MEET NEXT WEEK

It has been announced that theTC leader Mehmet Ali Talat’s Special Representative - Ozdil Nami and an envoy to the Greek Cypriot leader Yorgos Yakovu will be coming together next week.

The two aides are expected to carry out preparatory work ahead of a meeting between TC leader Mehmet Ali Talat and the Greek Cypriot Leader Dimitris Christofias.

The meeting between the two leaders is expected to take place between the 17th -24th of March.


Speaking to the BRT newsroom,TC leader Talat’s special representative Ozdil Nami said that an exact date had not yet been set for his meeting with Greek Cypriot Presidential aide Yorgos Yakovu but added that the meeting was most likely going to take place at the UN residence in the buffer zone.

Mr Nami said that the setting of date for the Talat-Christofias meeting as well as other issues concerning the negotiations process will be discussed during the meeting.

Yesterday, TC leader Mehmet Ali Talat said that the Turkish Cypriot Side and Turkey were ready to make every kind of initiative towards finding a solution to the Cyprus problem.

TC Leader Talat’s comment came at the end of a summit in Ankara on the Cyprus issue.

During the summit at the Cankaya Palace, TC leader Talat, Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan exchanged views on possible new developments on the Cyprus issue.

Speaking on his arrival at Ercan Airport yesterday,TC leader Talat said that it has been once again confirmed during the summit that Turkish Side’s attitude towards finding a solution to the Cyprus problem has not been changed.

Pointing out that a new leader who was in favour of a solution has been chosen in elections in South Cyprus, Mr Talat said this has raised the hopes for a solution.

‘We want an immediate re-start of the fully-fledged negotiations. It is no longer necessary to waste time’ he added.

He also noted that the Turkish Cypriot Side was ready to support every initiative to be made by the United Nations, expressing the hope that it was still possible to reach a settlement until the end of 2008.

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SENIOR AIDES OF TURKISH CYPRIOT AND GREEK CYPRIOT LEADERS WILL MEET NEXT WEEK

It has been announced that theTC leader Mehmet Ali Talat’s Special Representative - Ozdil Nami and an envoy to the Greek Cypriot leader Yorgos Yakovu will be coming together next week.

The two aides are expected to carry out preparatory work ahead of a meeting between TC leader Mehmet Ali Talat and the Greek Cypriot Leader Dimitris Christofias.

The meeting between the two leaders is expected to take place between the 17th -24th of March.


Speaking to the BRT newsroom,TC leader Talat’s special representative Ozdil Nami said that an exact date had not yet been set for his meeting with Greek Cypriot Presidential aide Yorgos Yakovu but added that the meeting was most likely going to take place at the UN residence in the buffer zone.

Mr Nami said that the setting of date for the Talat-Christofias meeting as well as other issues concerning the negotiations process will be discussed during the meeting.

Yesterday, TC leader Mehmet Ali Talat said that the Turkish Cypriot Side and Turkey were ready to make every kind of initiative towards finding a solution to the Cyprus problem.

TC Leader Talat’s comment came at the end of a summit in Ankara on the Cyprus issue.

During the summit at the Cankaya Palace, TC leader Talat, Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan exchanged views on possible new developments on the Cyprus issue.

Speaking on his arrival at Ercan Airport yesterday,TC leader Talat said that it has been once again confirmed during the summit that Turkish Side’s attitude towards finding a solution to the Cyprus problem has not been changed.

Pointing out that a new leader who was in favour of a solution has been chosen in elections in South Cyprus, Mr Talat said this has raised the hopes for a solution.

‘We want an immediate re-start of the fully-fledged negotiations. It is no longer necessary to waste time’ he added.

He also noted that the Turkish Cypriot Side was ready to support every initiative to be made by the United Nations, expressing the hope that it was still possible to reach a settlement until the end of 2008.

Deputy Prime Minister –Foreign Minister Turgay Avci has reacted to statements by the newly elected Greek Cypriot Leader Dimitris Christofias describing Turkey as an invader on the island.

He reminded that Christofias, like many of his AKEL comrades owed their life to the Turkish Peace Operation
In a statement released by the Foreign Ministry’s press bureau, the Foreign Minister said that the international community perceived provocative statements issued by the Greek Cypriot leader during his election campaign as being part of the ‘election atmosphere and conditions.

He however stated that such statements continued even after the elections.

Foreign Minister Avci also pointed out that the Greek Cypriot leader while expressing his support for a federal settlement on the island was also putting forward demands aimed at removing UN parameters on the Cyprus Problem.

"His demands will turn the Turkish Cypriot people a minority within a Greek Cypriot State, forcing them to migrate," he warned.
He also stated that the Turkish Cypriots are ready for a new partnership based on political equality of the two peoples, a bi-zonal structure, the equal status of founder states, and effective and de facto guarantee of Turkey.

"We have set the end of 2008 as a target, and Turkey is supporting this position. However, the statements of the Greek Cypriot administration indicates that it is not ready to reach a settlement in the near future and is planning to maintain the status quo so as to gain time," he told.

Hey Halil, "turkey" and co are full of shit...

Yesterday, TC leader Mehmet Ali Talat said that the Turkish Cypriot Side and Turkey were ready to make every kind of initiative towards finding a solution to the Cyprus problem.

and then

He also stated that the Turkish Cypriots are ready for a new partnership based on political equality of the two peoples, a bi-zonal structure, the equal status of founder states, and effective and de facto guarantee of Turkey.

2 contradictive statements effendi...

and then talat the clown says

Speaking on his arrival at Ercan Airport yesterday,TC leader Talat said that it has been once again confirmed during the summit that Turkish Side’s attitude towards finding a solution to the Cyprus problem has not been changed.

whats the point of negotiating, fuck turkey and what she wants...

[halil]

Talat challenges Christofias
Saturday, March 8, 2008

Christofias was in Athens this week for a “fine tuning session” with the Greek leadership before the start of the talks, while Talat was engaged in a similar exercise with the Turkish president and prime minister. The Greek Cypriot leader sent a rather surprising verbal gesture to Ankara Thursday apologizing to Turkey for what Greek Cypriots did to Turkish Cypriots in 1963 and 1964. The address was wrong; he should have apologized to Turkish Cypriots. But perhaps when he meets Talat later this month, he will repeat the apology to the Turkish Cypriot leader as well.
Still, the apology was a nice goodwill gesture before the resumption of the talks. Similar eye-catching gestures aimed at winning back support of the international community and improving the Greek Cypriot image, tainted very much over the past years with the antagonistic behavior of the former Tassos Papadopoulos administration, might have been the new strategy of Christofias.
In terms of the modality of the new process, however, Christofias is demanding continuation of the so-called Gambari process – the process that was launched after Papadopoulos and Talat were brought together by Ibrahim Gambari, then assistant secretary-general of the U.N., on July 8, 2006 – that aimed to prepare a common ground for talks through work by a series of inter-communal committees. That time-consuming process unfortunately did not start, although at a Sept. 5, 2006 meeting the two leaders had pledged to actively support the committee works. Still, disagreements over petty questions such as where the committees would meet have prevented progress.

No open-ended talks

Talat, on the other hand, is now stressing that since the Gambari process was just aiming at bringing Papadopoulos to the talks he was shunning, if Christofias wants a result-oriented, all-inclusive process, he is “more than ready” and “more than happy” to engage in such an effort with the aim and intention of achieving a mutually acceptable resolution by the end of this year. That is, Talat is challenging Christofias to demonstrate that he has political will to engage in a “comprehensive and intensive” process that will not be “open-ended” and based on U.N. parameters. Wasting time with confidence-building talks and measures, according to Talat, will be nothing more than wasting precious time, because resuming the talks themselves will be the best confidence-building move.
Talat's stress on “U.N. parameters,” however, is likely to upset Christofias, who has made a U-turn from his pro-settlement position since his election and adopted the style of his predecessor, Papadopoulos, who always preferred relegating the Cyprus problem from one of power sharing between the two peoples of the island to one of individual rights and freedoms for the “Turkish citizens of the Republic of Cyprus.” In other words, the main stumbling block for a settlement in the Papadopoulos mentality was its denial of rights and liberties of the Turkish Cypriot people as one of the two co-founding peoples of the Republic of Cyprus. Now Christofias apparently not only rehashed the former three-way coalition government of Papadopoulos under his leadership, but he has also adopted a rather antagonistic approach to the Cyprus problem. At least, that is the impression he has been giving so far and which indeed can be nothing more than a negotiation tactic. We shall see, once talks get underway...

Call for compromise deal

Talat's stress on “UN parameters” also means the Turkish Cypriot side is demanding talks be held between the leaders of the two peoples with the intention of establishing a new federation based on the two states' reality on the island on the pillars of bi-zonality and bi-communality. That is, Talat is suggesting to Christofias not a restructuring of the Cyprus Republic into a federal state with two zones, but a new federal republic that will be a “virgin birth,” acquiring its legitimacy and sovereignty from the existing two states on the island, which will be converted into “founding states” with some degree of “residual sovereignty” under the new common state.
Talat is challenging Christofias to demonstrate whether he has the political will to compromise, telling him he is more than ready to make some bitter compromises for the sake of building a common future.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/arti ... wsid=98412

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Talat challenges Christofias
Saturday, March 8, 2008

Christofias was in Athens this week for a “fine tuning session” with the Greek leadership before the start of the talks, while Talat was engaged in a similar exercise with the Turkish president and prime minister. The Greek Cypriot leader sent a rather surprising verbal gesture to Ankara Thursday apologizing to Turkey for what Greek Cypriots did to Turkish Cypriots in 1963 and 1964. The address was wrong; he should have apologized to Turkish Cypriots. But perhaps when he meets Talat later this month, he will repeat the apology to the Turkish Cypriot leader as well.
Still, the apology was a nice goodwill gesture before the resumption of the talks. Similar eye-catching gestures aimed at winning back support of the international community and improving the Greek Cypriot image, tainted very much over the past years with the antagonistic behavior of the former Tassos Papadopoulos administration, might have been the new strategy of Christofias.
In terms of the modality of the new process, however, Christofias is demanding continuation of the so-called Gambari process – the process that was launched after Papadopoulos and Talat were brought together by Ibrahim Gambari, then assistant secretary-general of the U.N., on July 8, 2006 – that aimed to prepare a common ground for talks through work by a series of inter-communal committees. That time-consuming process unfortunately did not start, although at a Sept. 5, 2006 meeting the two leaders had pledged to actively support the committee works. Still, disagreements over petty questions such as where the committees would meet have prevented progress.

No open-ended talks

Talat, on the other hand, is now stressing that since the Gambari process was just aiming at bringing Papadopoulos to the talks he was shunning, if Christofias wants a result-oriented, all-inclusive process, he is “more than ready” and “more than happy” to engage in such an effort with the aim and intention of achieving a mutually acceptable resolution by the end of this year. That is, Talat is challenging Christofias to demonstrate that he has political will to engage in a “comprehensive and intensive” process that will not be “open-ended” and based on U.N. parameters. Wasting time with confidence-building talks and measures, according to Talat, will be nothing more than wasting precious time, because resuming the talks themselves will be the best confidence-building move.
Talat's stress on “U.N. parameters,” however, is likely to upset Christofias, who has made a U-turn from his pro-settlement position since his election and adopted the style of his predecessor, Papadopoulos, who always preferred relegating the Cyprus problem from one of power sharing between the two peoples of the island to one of individual rights and freedoms for the “Turkish citizens of the Republic of Cyprus.” In other words, the main stumbling block for a settlement in the Papadopoulos mentality was its denial of rights and liberties of the Turkish Cypriot people as one of the two co-founding peoples of the Republic of Cyprus. Now Christofias apparently not only rehashed the former three-way coalition government of Papadopoulos under his leadership, but he has also adopted a rather antagonistic approach to the Cyprus problem. At least, that is the impression he has been giving so far and which indeed can be nothing more than a negotiation tactic. We shall see, once talks get underway...

Call for compromise deal

Talat's stress on “UN parameters” also means the Turkish Cypriot side is demanding talks be held between the leaders of the two peoples with the intention of establishing a new federation based on the two states' reality on the island on the pillars of bi-zonality and bi-communality. That is, Talat is suggesting to Christofias not a restructuring of the Cyprus Republic into a federal state with two zones, but a new federal republic that will be a “virgin birth,” acquiring its legitimacy and sovereignty from the existing two states on the island, which will be converted into “founding states” with some degree of “residual sovereignty” under the new common state.
Talat is challenging Christofias to demonstrate whether he has the political will to compromise, telling him he is more than ready to make some bitter compromises for the sake of building a common future.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/arti ... wsid=98412

I wouldn't trust talat to carry my jock strap halil not alone make any negotiations...

Lets wait and see if "turkey" the fascist state apologises for ethnic cleansing...

Do you think they should Halil?
or
Are you also an endorser of ethnic cleansing?

bitter compromises for the sake of building a common future

And what bitter compromises is "turkey" the fascist state is willing to make halil?

care to outline your thoughts effendi?

PS...refer to my posts above yours and make a comment rather than saying polly, the parrot, wants a bickie